GPS art is the creation of a few bikers and runners who track their trips with an app and then post the image of the route they traveled online. The results so far include electronic “drawings” of Darth Vader, Yoda, and characters from Game of Thrones. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “GPS Art”
Here’s a term that’s new to me: GPS art. Oh yeah, yeah, people do. They’ll do a run, for example, and make it the shape of a dog or the heart for their girlfriend.
Or yeah, yeah, you can bike it or walk it or run it or drive it. Yeah, all these people are using these GPS apps to create more and more elaborate art in urban areas.
And you can go online and you can see people whose routes through a city look like Yoda or Darth Vader or something like that.
So every GPS kind of pinpoint creates a dot on the map. So it’s going to connect the dots through a city.
Yeah, or lines.
And then your route is reflected on the map digitally, but not actually.
Yeah, how cool is that? I mean, it’s actually a thing. You can see photos of it.
